New Use for Ziploc Bags

When I moved in with Dan, I faced a cord pileup of mammoth proportions. Cords for all of our tech gadgets — plus chargers for double the cell phones, camera batteries, iPods, and about a dozen TV and stereo cables (I still have no idea what they're all for) — created a twisted mess of wires. No problem, I thought. I quickly set to repurposing my garbage ties to individually twist the cords into order. But that idea flunked miserably! It was a pain to untwist and then re-twist those twist ties to get to the cord I needed. And the cords still wound up getting jumbled together. So I thought of a new plan: separate each cord into its own bag. Ziploc sandwich bags were the only bags or pouches I had around in bulk, so I used them. Sandwich bags are transparent too, which I like (I think organizing solutions that let you see what's inside a container are inherently more practical). I quickly put each cord, cable, and charger into its own Zlploc bag and tossed all of the bags together into a big storage box from the Container Store. The idea's been working for me ever since — it's easy to get to the cords I need and then toss them back in their bags. Finally, no more jumbled cords!